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y separately published work icon A Century of Australian Song anthology   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 1888... 1888 A Century of Australian Song
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Contents

* Contents derived from the London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,:Walter Scott Publishers , 1888 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A Bush Idyli"Why, Ruby, hulloa! you are pricking your ears!", Alfred Chandler , single work poetry (p. 111)
Note: As 'A Bush Idyll'
Album Verses In a Lady's Albumi"What can I write in thee, O dainty book,", Marcus Clarke , single work poetry (p. 116-117)
Note: Under title: (Written in the Album of Mrs. H.G. Turner, of Melbourne.)
Gippsland Spring Songi"'I am coming, I am coming,'", N. S. Clerk , single work poetry (p. 118-120)
The Jubilee of Melbournei"For ages, wild and restless waves had cast", J.F. Daniell , single work poetry (p. 121)
Sydney Cove A Fulfilled Prophecy Visit of Hope to Sydney Cove Visit of Hope to Sydney Cove Near Botany Bayi"Where Sydney Cove, her lucid bosom swells,", Erasmus Darwin , single work poetry (p. 124)
Note: With title: A Fulfilled Prophecy
Christmas Guestsi"'The loneliest night of all the lonely year!'", Mrs Thomas Charles Cloud , single work poetry (p. 150-153)
The Upper Darlingi"Where, like an oven in the sky,", Dugald Ferguson , single work poetry (p. 154)
On Visiting the Spot Where Captain Cook, and Sir Joseph Banks, First Landed in Botany Bayi"Here fix the tablet:-This must be the place", Barron Field , single work poetry (p. 155)
Note: With title: Sonnet
The Shepherd's New Year Day The Shepherd's New Year's Dayi"The shepherd was out in his hut alone,", William Anderson Forbes , single work poetry (p. 156-157)
From Midasi"Then there are Gods indeed?", William Forster , single work poetry (p. 158-162)
The Wind in the She-Oak Treei"O, would that I could translate", Frances Tyrell Gill , single work poetry (p. 163-165)
Beneath the Wattle Boughsi"The wattles were sweet with September's rain;", Frances Tyrell Gill , single work poetry (p. 166)
Love's Loyaltyi"With the magpie for the nightingale,", Frances Tyrell Gill , single work poetry (p. 167-169)
While the Billy Boilsi"While the ruby cools in the dull grey dust", Keighley John Goodchild , single work poetry (p. 170-172)
Angel-Beckoned, Henry Newton Goodrich , extract poetry (p. 173-176)
The Sick Stock-Rider The Sick Stockrideri"Hold hard, Ned! lift me down once more, and lay me in the shade,", Adam Lindsay Gordon , single work poetry (p. 177-180)
An Exile's Farewelli"The ocean heaves around us still", Adam Lindsay Gordon , single work poetry (p. 181-183)
The Cloudi"One summer morn, out of the sea-waves wild,", Charles Harpur , single work poetry (p. 187-189)
The Creek of the Four Gravesi"I tell a Settler's tale of the old times,", Charles Harpur , single work poetry
A group of white men wander into the Australian wilderness in search of discovery. They marvel at the foreignness of the landscape before settling down to sleep at their camp. They are woken by an attack from a group of Indigenous Australians. Seeing his friends killed, Egremont flees into a creek and finds a cavity in the earth to hide in. His pursuers give up their hunt, unable to find him, and he escapes. 
 (p. 190-198)
The Creek of the Four Gravesi"I tell a Settler's tale of the old times,", Charles Harpur , single work poetry
A group of white men wander into the Australian wilderness in search of discovery. They marvel at the foreignness of the landscape before settling down to sleep at their camp. They are woken by an attack from a group of Indigenous Australians. Seeing his friends killed, Egremont flees into a creek and finds a cavity in the earth to hide in. His pursuers give up their hunt, unable to find him, and he escapes. 
 (p. 190-198)
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